so i heard a story that the dnr said that the spiny water flea is a very large hatch this year and the perch are full easy food but the water flea does not stay on the bottom they go the middle of the water and the perch are chasing them so they are not in schools on the bottom but are scattered through the water column thats why we catch one here or there but the fish are there and plenty of them what i would like to know is when do they hatch and how long do they hatch last year it was good fishing till the 2nd week of august around wards and intake area a can where we fish we would go out and pick at them it was like a light switch one day we got them the next day we only got 1 limit of 30 for 4 guys and we finally started to pick at them and getting limits but out a lot farther we traveled 15 miles from shore. but the netters are getting some be cause i bought a hundred pounds live weight. and so did my fishing buddys we have not gave up yet but ill have some fish in the freezer. went out monday got 6 perch came home and ordered fish